extremetech.com — "If you are like me and do all your video recording in Linux, you may wonder how you can share the TV shows, personal videos, and other multimedia content with friends and family who don't use Linux. How can you get the video from your hard disk to the people you care about in a way that you know they can play it?" Using eMoviX ...
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drajMay 5, 2006
Reboot equals pain. Use a multiplatform codec instead. Some friends might have a mac. This is redundant software.
edwilliMay 5, 2006
You can do the same thing with GeexBox ( <a class="user" href="http://geexbox.org/en/index.html">http://geexbox.org/en/index.html</a> )Interesting idea.
ideefixMay 5, 2006
on a usb drive that will be nice
bigboehmboyMay 5, 2006
Hey guys, not sure how easy this would be, but this might be the pro: Put it on removeable hard drive/ flash drive; now have instant movie player on any computer. Hell, you can do it to computers youre not really supposed to, if you can config it to boot from usb.
ottoMay 5, 2006
This is an interesting idea, but a better idea is to stick a stripped down VLC on the disk along with it. If they have Windows, then spend the 5 minutes to write an autorun.inf file and it's plug and play. For Mac users, stick a copy of the Mac VLC on there as well, and tell them to install it. For Linux users, well, they're Linux users. You can simply assume they know WTF they're doing there.
drajMay 8, 2006
@izzieSure, I'll tell grandma all about virtualization. ;)On the other hand, good thinking, a multi-platform virtualization layer. Hmm... doesn't java do just this? Is it just a java movie player we need?
dukeinlondonMay 8, 2006
Most people own a DVD player. Rebooting to watch a movie seems a huge stretch of what people are likely to do.
bgeraghtySep 19, 2007
because that would be really insecure.